Classic Quotes Collection

Radiate boundless love towards the entire world.

Buddha

LoveWorld

In whom there is no sympathy for living beings: know him as an outcast.

Buddha

SympathyLivingBeings

Live with no sense of 'mine,' not forming attachment to experiences.

Buddha

LiveSenseAttachmentExperiences

Better it is to live one day seeing the rise and fall of things than to live a hundred years without ever seeing the rise and fall of things.

Buddha

BetterLiveYearsWithout

If a man going down into a river, swollen and swiftly flowing, is carried away by the current-how can he help others across?

Buddha

ManRiverHelpOthers

All conditioned things are impermanent-when one sees this with wisdom, one turns away from suffering.

Buddha

WisdomSuffering

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

Buddha

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To support mother and father, to cherish wife and children and to be engaged in peaceful occupation-this is the greatest blessing.

Buddha

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All tremble at violence; all fear death. Putting oneself in the place of another, one should not kill nor cause another to kill.

Buddha

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They blame those who remain silent, they blame those who speak much, they blame those who speak in moderation. There is none in the world who is not blamed.

Buddha

BlameSilentWorld

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

Isaac Newton

ThoughtsReading

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

Isaac Newton

ReligionBible

Nature is exceedingly simple and harmonious with itself.

Isaac Newton

NatureSimpleSelf

The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us.

Isaac Newton

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Don't doubt the Creator because it is inconceivable that accidents alone could be the controller of this universe.

Isaac Newton

CreatorUniverse

The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the True One.

Isaac Newton

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The latest authors, like the most ancient, strove to subordinate the phenomena of nature to the laws of mathematics.

Isaac Newton

AncientPhenomenaNatureMathematics

To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

Isaac Newton

TruthSimplicity

Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this - from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena.

Isaac Newton

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It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions.

Isaac Newton

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